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Macaroni Station |
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Edna,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
28° 58' 46.06844999988",
-96° 38' 43.61379"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
Forerunner of town of Edna; a camp and commissary during the building of the New York, Texas & Mexican railway, 1880-1882. Count Joseph Telfener, one of the railway investors, brought laborers from his native Italy; station was nicknamed for them. Mrs. Lucy Flournoy in 1882 had townsite surveyed on her land here. The name Edna honors a daughter of Count Telfener. The Macaroni line built only 92 miles before it dropped plan to extend into Mexico; even so, it aided growth in coastal Texas. Since 1885 it has been in the Southern Pacific system.
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Macaroni Station Historical Marker Location Map, Edna, Texas
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